This Crazy Brexit This reportage takes me from the special summit in Brussels to London. Here the British Parliament on Oct 19th 2019 is supposed to vote on the deal, while at the same time one million people on the street rally against the Brexit. If 10 Downing Street on “Super Saturday” was a photo booth…
Stand the truth, AfD!! I was expecting glowing landscapes. It was said that the East burned for Right. Saxony election! I was prepared for everything. Depending on the outcome of the election there would be riots from the left or riots from the right. Burning barricades, water cannons! Really? Still on Saturday before the…
AfD and friends practically invisible during party conference in Augsburg. For June 29th and July 1st 2018 Augsburg had something in mind. The AfD (Germany`s far right wing party) had announced to hold its ninth federal party conference here. The normal reaction to political events like this meanwhile is that the city, its offices,…
Barcelona says no to secession The phantom pain of many Catalans to be centrally dictated by fascists from Madrid is first reliefed by the announcement of the controversial referendum on the renunciation of dominion for October 01, 2017. The process for the independence referendum that Artur Mas, predecessor of Carles Puigdemont at the head…
Merkel’s address to the Saar region I was interested in the effect that Angela Merkel’s campaign appearances would have on AfD voters and similar. For this reason I went to Dillingen at the river Saar on September 15th, 2017, where Merkel had been expected nine days before the Bundestag elections. Overthere I experienced amazing…
The Aesthetics of Resistance or: When Riot-Swallows Fly “You’re sweating like a pig, cop!” a mid-thirties demonstrator in shorts is yelling at the officer, who is standing half a meter in front of him in full gear and helmet. He remains unmoved and has the louder getting crowd in his sights. In the setting…
THE RIGHT flops in Karlsruhe The far-right minor party “The Right” demonstrates on June 3rd, 2017. This time in the German capital of law, in Karlsruhe. Founded in 2012 and meanwhile under the supervision of the constitutional protection, the party planned to hold its scheduled ninth “Day of the German Future” here under the…
The day Emmanuel Macron became president Further back on the Place de la République, the Orchestre Debout (Orchestra of the Upright) plays Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, while the front reveals what is really going on. Whether you wouldn’t notice in Germany that France, oh what, all of Europe is ruled by a mafia. There were…
The institutions of the European Union In a first step of my project I drove for a few days from Strasbourg via Frankfurt, Luxembourg to Brussels and photographed the institutions of the European Union. In a broader sense, I photographed architecture. However, the processes that take place behind the walls of the buildings outweigh…
A city opens up Even before the first refugees arrived, a welcoming culture was ready in Münster-Sarmsheim. In the meantime, the community has welcomed 140 people – and many citizens have had more active contact than ever before. Text: Benno Stieber Photos: Jochen Sand Published in Enorm-Magazin 06 / 2016 When you ask Nicola…
“It`s gotta be smelling like home” Actually, Hossein Fayazpour wanted to cook at noon for managers in an office complex. Then the city accommodated refugees there. The top chef yet stayed. Text: Benno Stieber Photos: Jochen Sand Published in Enorm-Magazin 01 / 2016 The sky hangs low and grey over the Grünwinkel industrial estate in Karlsruhe.…